Bruce Charlton's Notions

I have often commented on the absolute need and demand for optimism that is characteristic of our Western civilization.  So much so; that m...

A good deal of human discourse is - and maybe always has been - ranged around arguments over which group of people are most at fault for the...

The idea that humans have a tendency to see patterns where there is (supposedly) only randomness - like seeing faces appearing briefly in a ...

If the direction of God's creation is towards greater consciousness, hence greater freedom, of Beings; then the direction of history is ...

Because so-called AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a top-down-imposed, totalitarian Establishment imposed, lying fake; it is always a produc...

I've said it all before, in different words; but it really was and is an epic tragedy to comprehend how Christianity has been so profou...

In the spiritual war of this world, motivation is all that matters It applies to all times and places and nations - including here, and now....

Lazarus was apparently the first Man freely to choose the Second Creation One big problem with this divine creation, the "primary...

If our relationships ought to be loving; this means that thy ought Not primarily to be functional.  Yet this is easily forgotten - plus, of ...

Over at my Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss how Tolkien's great poem "Where now the horse and the rider" was explained by t...

The current wave of Establishment-styled AI ("Artificial Intelligence") is a fake and a cheat, designed and implemented for the m...

Supposing you are God, setting-up the world for Men's salvation, then how would you devise things?  You must take into full account that...

I have harped-on about our civilization's false assumption that physics (or mathematics) is the ultimate reality - whereas I regard Bei...

People have assumptions concerning the intentions and motivations of politicians; and it is in the light of these assumptions  that people e...

Charles Williams, the Inkling, had been a high level initiate or "adept" in the Golden Dawn tradition of ritual magic. Some though...

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) was one of the last of the real English poets. Indeed, one of a relatively small number or women who were (by my c...

Hugh Fraser, the actor who so definitively portrays Captain Hastings in David Suchet's ITV Poirot , and is a superb narrator for many Ag...

Miles Mathis has written his "credo " - a long, somewhat sprawling, but honest and probing examination of his guiding principles a...

I have recently been having some discussions in the comment sections at Derek L Ramsey's blog , initially in relation to The Trinity (as...

All through my adult life, I have "suffered" from being mistaken for other people.  Friends and acquaintances claim that they have...

The current patriotic mania apparently escalating among so many of the erstwhile disaffected US population of anti-leftist instinct and Eur...